Bren fall in love with the sea.'s Reviews > Ancient Greece: Those Old Greek Guys Knew a Thing or Two

What a magnificent read about ancient Greek history! Review coming soon but highly HIGHLY recommended.


So anybody who follows my reviews probably knows that I’ve never bumped into a book about ancient Greece, I didn’t want to get to know better.


To put it bluntly that means I am a student of Greek mythology, a mythology geek, and I really really like books about ancient Greece.

And yes, oh yes, I’ve dreamed about living in ancient Greece, and attending the Greek theater, and meeting Zeus and Artemis and Aphrodite and Apollo and Athena. All of them.

I want to mix and mingle in Greece in a gorgeous Blue and white villa with the sea as my backyard bathing myself in Rose and Jasmine.


This book is like one long poem, a sort of love letter to ancient Greece. I inhaled it quickly, finishing it and lamenting that there wasn’t any more.


But the great thing about this book is mythology is only one chapter, which I didn’t know when I started it.

It’s all about Greek philosophy and Greek, mathematics, and Greek electronics, and Greek actors. It’s about everything Ancient Greece.



It’s also about how ancient Greece is still with us today and how it’s influenced so much in America.

But those aren’t the only reasons I loved this book.

It was the writer! They use so many metaphors, and so many similes and so much bright, colorful imaginative prose that I was delighted.

The reason I was delighted is because I do that in my own writing, and some people love it, and some people curse me out for it but that’s where my mind goes and I can’t help myself.

So yes, this book is as golden as Apollo’s sun , as delicate as Artemis’s Moon, as intense as the Goddess Hera, and as fertile in lushness and texture as the Goddess Demeter.


So yes, Greece comes alive. It does under the tender care of this writer. It’s a beautiful book, a delicious ode to the beauty of ancient Greece and I can’t recommend it highly enough. I’ve had a lot of stress in my life these last couple of months, and this book had me laughing and smiling and feeling rather awestruck .

Highly highly recommended.